John Judis: Facing insurrection, Obama should start acting like Lincoln

John Judis has a New Republic article that is getting a lot of attention (correctly).  A house divided against itself cannot stand,” Lincoln had declared, conveying his conviction that the union could no longer countenance the existence of a slave-owning South.   Obama says he holds Lincoln as his model.  But he's got the compromise thing backwards: Lincoln was opposing, not embracing, compromise.
Compromise with whom?  The Republican Party is now a destructive not a conservative force.  Face down the insurrectionists is the message - GWC
If Obama Likes Lincoln So Much, He Should Start Acting Like Him | The New Republic: "THIS IS IMPORTANT because Obama may now be facing his own crisis of the Union. Over the last four decades, the Republican Party has transformed from a loyal opposition into an insurrectionary party that flouts the law when it is in the majority and threatens disorder when it is the minority. It is the party of Watergate and Iran-Contra, but also of the government shutdown in 1995 and the impeachment trial of 1999. If there is an earlier American precedent for today’s Republican Party, it is the antebellum Southern Democrats of John Calhoun who threatened to nullify, or disregard, federal legislation they objected to, and who later led the fight to secede from the union over slavery."